The sophomore slump caught up with Dire Straits, but they quickly atoned for that with a third-album masterpiece. This ...

A portrait of the Dire Straits - a British rock band formed in London in 1977, now visiting West Germany for the first time, performing at prestigious Rockpalast in Cologne produced by WDR, promoting ...

KOCHI: Known as the best fabric in Kerala, the Chendamangalam handloom is struggling to hold on to its legacy. Even as its ...

Sona Mia, a rickshaw puller from Rajbari, saw an advertisement on YouTube one day about an organisation in Dhaka sending people to Kyrgyzstan for a job with a big salary.  Wishing to turn his luck ...

For Mark Knopfler, music has been a lifelong passion, and it's been a well-rewarded one. The numerous accolades he's received ...

Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler has said it’s unlikely he would ever play as part of the group again. Knopfler said he wouldn’t play with the band again as he wanted to “expand and work ...

Helped launch the music television era; helped launch — with Brothers in Arms — the CD era; was in a band — Dire Straits — ...

With the fast-emerging multipolar world and Pakistan’s deep-seated crisis, exercising state sovereignty has become much more ...

The 1985 album Brothers in Arms boosted the veteran rockers Dire Straits to new levels of popularity, with the smash single “Money for Nothing” grabbing many of the headlines. “Walk of Life ...

And then there were two?

Its leisurely pace is closer to 1981's Romeo And Juliet than 1985's Money For Nothing, but Knopfler's guitar work is an understated delight, decorating his bar-room blues songs without ...

Lawmakers should focus less on eliminating income and, instead, put energy into using taxes better to fix existing problems, ...